Narrative Development in Adolescence Creating the Storied Self /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McLean, Kate C. (Editor), Pasupathi, Monisha (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Education.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Education, general.

The need to establish a narrative self reaches an important peak during adolescence as teens work to understand life events and establish their self-identity. The first book to examine narrative development during adolescence in depth, Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self,...

Table of Contents:

• Self-Continuity Across Developmental Change in and of Repeated Life Narratives
• Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence
• Patterns of Family Narrative Co-construction in Relation to Adolescent Identity and Well-Being
• Autonomy, Identity, and Narrative Construction with Parents and Friends
• What He Said to Me Stuck: Adolescents’ Narratives of Grandparents and Their Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood
• Life Stories of Troubled Youth: Meanings for a Mentor and a Scholarly Stranger
• Re-storying the Lives of At-Risk Youth: A Case Study Approach
• Constructing Resilience: Adolescent Motherhood and the Process of Self-Transformation
• Negotiating the Meanings of Adolescent Motherhood Through the Medium of Identity Collages
• How Violent Youth Offenders and Typically Developing Adolescents Construct Moral Agency in Narratives About Doing Harm
• Critical Narrating by Adolescents Growing Up in War: Case Study Across the Former Yugoslavia.